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by cwkoss 4y ago
You say "only" as if this isn't the majority of the american bourgeoisie. Pretty much all of finance, Landlords, IP trolling - the rich will unashamedly collect undeserved rent on anything they can up to and slightly over the
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Cashback on credit cards is really just a rebate on the CC fees that are baked in to all prices. It's still a net economic loss for consumers, just not as bad as if you weren't taking advantage of that. Credit cards only seem like
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> the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is rejected by linguists except perhaps in some very narrow situations What do you mean by this? Hasn't linguistic relativity been studied and demonstrated quite extensively? I don't disagree with
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There is an amusing and depressing irony to a colonizer's language being re-colonized by another colonizer.
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I wonder how much if this is a result of corporate power fighting for ever-increasing economic inequality. Class discussions about material wealth are excluded from the zeitgeist because they make the ultrarich people who control things unc
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How significant is the time warp? Ex. how many moon-years are equivalent to 100 earth years?
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They'd probably keep the time of their primary trade partners. I feel like there is a nautical precedent, but can't remember specifically. Does everyone on the ISS stick to the same time zone? Or do they tend to sleep with their
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Sounds like the real villains are the credit card companies who have the market power to enforce fees on cancelled payments. They are so entrenched no one is even questioning their position anymore. Visa and Mastercard are massive drains o
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I dream that one day American democratic voters will actually have a left-of-center candidate in the presidential race.
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If corporations are people, every one is a psychopath willing to lie and cheat to get what they want.
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Most software engineers couldn't
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I was thinking the same thing. Define the paths and objects in the space, then 'extrude' the graphics from that.
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likely much less wind too, which would have the same effect
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I think the idea is that the margins are better on luxury houses/apts/condos (less plumbing per sq ft, etc), so developers are incentivized to build at lower-density than is optimal for alleviating housing supply issues.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
The A1111 webUI and extension ecosystem is a beautiful example of what FOSS can be. - User can install with a few clicks, no thinking about command line - webUI has hover tooltips on everything, so user can most figure out what's going
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How much of (unrecorded) human behavior is performance vs an expression of the individual self? Can genuine ever be determined deterministically?
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All chocolate contains PEA which is toxic to dogs proportional to % cocoa. Xylitol is an additional possible risk.
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Perhaps such a pocket dimension can be implemented with another LLM
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And its amazing how quickly stable diffusion is advancing past the competition. I tried Dall-e for the first time in months today and its results feel so outdated, and I was dazzled by them 5 months ago. A1111 and the extensions system th
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Interesting. I found most of what was described in this video fairly obvious. The prompt length one was useful non-obvious insight, but the rest of it I think is pretty easy to figure out on your own if you play with ChatGPT for a few ev
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I've seen a boom of people selling ebooks, etc. with "46 Revolutionary ChatGPT prompts" with the idea that someone found some cool behavior that could be economically useful. However, I think this kind of 'engineered pro
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Oceans are like very deep markets - lots of participants but harder to outcompete the others. SPY is like the pacific - interacting with many other markets, constant yet chaotic. Mountains are like smaller caps - there is a lot more alpha,
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Several societies (incl France) offer codeine over the counter and have much lower opioid usage rates. I think there would be a lot of benefit to legalizing at least one molecule in each drug class for OTC recreational use, chosen based on
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Let's focus on the second one for plausible deniability, not the sort of data trail most people would want to follow them. I'm sure the likelihood of opioid ODs happening at shows and festivals is very high in some places, wouldn
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It occurred to me last week that phrase is prompt engineering. He is giving the essential info to specify what he wants presumably because a shorter specification would yield a different result. I wonder if star trek replicators are determ
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Oh wow, that UX is a mess, my brain tunes out slideshows by default at this point so I didn't even see it. The caption for one of the videos is "Slide Title" lol
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Yeah, and further confounding is the timelines for connection to trade for different cultures also vary significantly. I would love to see a good visualization of the history of commodity trade.
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Hmm. I wish this analysis accounted for availability of spices in different regions: I would expect onions and garlic to be more prevalent in Scandanavian dishes than cinnamon and ginger simply because those are easier to grow in temperate
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I see your point, but I feel like there's going to be a 'eating tidepods' level societal meme within a year mocking people who fall for AI hallucinations as "boomers", and then omnipotent AI myth will be shattered.
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Interesting points. - I wonder what proportion of people who are getting a false sense of security with GPT also were getting that same false sense from human systems. Will this shift entail a net increase in gullibility, or is this just &

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